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| What are the different scales of study in Ecology? |
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Organismal Ecology (the investigation of how adaptations and choices by individuals affect their reproduction and survival
Population Ecology (to understand change in pop over time- intra-specific interactions)
Community Ecology (study of how populations of species interact(inter specific) and form functional communities) disturbance response
Ecosystem Ecology (the study of the flow of energy and cycling of nutrients among abiotic and biotic interactions)
Conservation Biology and Ecology (effort to study, preserve, and/or restore threatened pops., coms., and/or ecosysts. and ecology provides advice) |
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Definition
| To learn about both the biotic(living) and the abiotic(nonliving)interactions. How they affect us and our environment. Population factors as well. |
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| How can habitats be characterized? |
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Definition
| Through temperature, moisture, wind and sunlight as well as through humans' influence:pollution, soil erosion, global warming (all abiotic), ppln reduction, extinction, predator removal, exotic intro. (all biotic) |
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| What are the characterizations of habitats about? |
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Temperature-metabolic activity, water content
{terrestrial plant especially responsive to temp and moisture
Moisture-hydration
Wind-moisture loss, physical description
Sunlight-photosynthesis |
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| Temperature/ global variation? |
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| Temperature is driven by amount of solar radiation reaching earth's surface |
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